20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill

This award-winning collection of short fiction by the New York Times-bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box leads readers into a maze filled with exits into a vast country of the surreal. Available for the first time in the U.S., this volume includes an exclusive bonus story. \n \nFrom the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.\n \nImogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . . \n \nFrancis was human once, but now he's an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . . \n \nJohn is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a dozen murdered children, and an antique telephone, long since disconnected, rings at night with calls from the dead. . . .\n \nNolan knows but can never tell what really happened in the summer of '77, when his idiot savant younger brother built a vast cardboard fort with secret doors leading into other worlds. . . .\n \nThe past isn't dead. It isn't even past. . . .\n \n \n \n \n